How Much Oil Is Really Spilling into the Gulf of Mexico?

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Gulf Spill Fishing closureMap of Gulf spill on May 8, with fishing closure areaAt first, right after the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded on April 20, BP and U.S. government officials reported the underwater well was pumping about 1,000 barrels a day into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A few days later, that figure was challenged by the non-profit group SkyTruth, which uses remote sensing and digital mapping to evaluate environmental issues globally. Ten days later, by April 30, some industry experts said the well could be leaking at a rate of 5,000 barrels daily -- five times the previous estimate, and the one that has been the most widely and persistently used in the media.

Wildly Disparate Estimates

But estimates continue to change. On May 4th, BP executives in a closed-door meeting reportedly told Congress that the well is discharging anywhere from 5,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf per day. At 42 U.S. gallons per barrel, that means the spill could be growing by 210,000 to 2.52 million gallons of oil each day. But how much is that, really?

See For Yourself the Extent of the Disaster

Now we can all see exactly how much it is, and how fast the spill is growing, thanks to Google, who has started a Crisis Response Site for the Gulf spill that constantly maps the changing size, shape and location of the spill based on data from the State of Louisiana, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and from satellite imagery. Google also lets you toggle on various maps showing the size and location of the spill on specific dates, where booms have been laid to protect the coast, and where spill-related incidents have occurred, like where the 30 or so dead turtles washed up on shore.

The Engineering Manager for Google Maps, Paul Rademacher, thoughtfully developed a Web site called "How Big is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?" that allows people to take a current, up-to-date map of the spill and lay it over a map of their own city or area. This helps give people a sense of the spill's true size in the midst of widely-ranging official estimates that may or may not be true. You can lay the Gulf oil spill over London, Rome, San Francisco, Hawaii or Washington, D.C., or put it over your own town or state, to get an idea of it's true size, day by day. All you need is a free Google Earth plugin available free at the site.

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oil spill stop

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the hurricanes are coming soon in the Gulf and, when they'll come, the (already bad) containment cap MUST be unplugged from the wellhead since the ship that collects the oil can remain there with an hurricane, so, the oil will flow from the well at 100,000 barrels per day!!!!!
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"BP Spill Ops To Evacuate 5 Days Before Storm-Force Winds"
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online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100625-712697.html
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5 days to unplug the containment cap and evacuate the storm site, a couple of day for the storm, another couple of days to come back on site and one day to replug the containment cap = 1,000,000 more barrels of oil freely spilled in the ocean... and this is only the FIRST storm, and not the worst...
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WHAT are they waiting to listen those who have the RIGHT IDEAS AND SOLUTION to STOP the oil spill QUICKLY to SAVE the sea and shores nature and wildlife BEFORE they'll be submerged by over 250,000,000 more gallons of oil, in the next TWO months (if lucky) ???????????
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bit.ly/c8y9GX
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This seems to be one of the

This seems to be one of the worst disasters to happen to the North America in modern history. Devastation to our natural resources, fishing industry, food prices, tourism, etc.

Why doesn't the government get involved in stopping the gushing hole in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico? Yes, it is BP's nightmare... but it is also affecting the state of our nation and the economy. The government should step in with every resource available and stop the oil that is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, then send a bill to BP for services rendered.

May 30, 2010 Help on how

May 30, 2010
Help on how close the tide bp oil leak system "Pantheon"
I. Envelope-shaped jacket deflated carbon fiber to cr eate a ring with a trapezoidal section features the following attachments with double-wall flexible tubing fi t over the outer bubbling helium gas and 150 bar inside the pumping liquid cement
II. Ring- back for second ring sectors always drive cables to the union of several segments to the top of the issue
III. The ring elements wi thin them contain a network carrier whic h is collapsible for their use is necessary to us e inert gas for lifting then follows the injection of liquid cement
IV. DESCRIPTION SYSTEM PROPOSED:
V. The area of the former can be sc aled to the characteris tics of a diameter of about 50 m to 10 m and a base height of 2 m s hould know the morphology of the shelf
VI. The firs t coarse positioning can be such as to adapt to the fund of any kind for his placement
of common weights can be us ed, then you will need to fill the tubes wi th helium at 150 bar connecting the pipes will provide helium through the management of pressur e to enlarge the conduits and injection of liquid cement Relay output progres sive
VII. The rings wil l feature segments on the guide rope amarr e for further instal lation of the second flexible ring again with the same injection system
VIII. In this way even in the presence of explosive gases and the lik elihood of action is safe.
IX. The proposed sys tem has a high probabil ity of suc cess because even in extreme conditions placed on the first ring the rest is very easy and fast to implement.
X For the installation can be used for ballast on normal because it is not required any kind of accuracy.
The advantage of this system is that we can thr ough the hose is placed wi thout the dual pressur e gas When the ring of tissue reaches the bottom you can begin to put pres sure on the ex ternal sector that win the isostatic pressure of 150 bar, thereby generating the inner duct for the injection of liquid cement.
The use of liquid cement involves the level ing of the r ing for the cons truction of dome and then afinal element for the success .
The sys tem should have only two Judas areas to avoid the action of strong currents using more guides there is the problem that twisting.
Finally getting up to level decr ease the v olume of cement to be injected thus supported the counter issuanc e system can be called "Pantheon".
Estimated time of material success first 12 hours
The final par t I think the VS . brought good job. Zandonella

GULF OIL SPILL

TWENTY YEARS AGO THE EXXON VALDEZ SPILL IN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND HAPPENED.
SINCE THIS INCIDENT TO THE PRESENT DAY,THERE IS NOTHING AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD MARKET TO REMOVE OIL OFF THE OPEN SEA.
PRESIDENT OBAMA TOLD US THAT THE BEST BRAINS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE USA ARE WORKING ON IDEAS TO STOP THE OIL REACHING THE SHORELINE.
THEY HAVE HAD TWENTY YEARS TO COME UP WITH A CREDITABLE IDEA,THEY HAVE FAILED.
NOW WILL YOU AMERICANS GIVE ME A CHANCE TO HELP YOU.
I HAVE SPENT TWENTY YEARS DEVELOPING A OIL SKIMMER DESIGNED FOR THE PROBLEMS YOU ARE NOW FACING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND ALSO YOUR MARSHES AND BIRD/WILDLIFE SANCTURYS.
MY INVENTIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN TANK TESTED BY A BRITISH UNIVERSITY WHO HAVE WRITTEN A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND PRODUCE A VIDEO OF ONE OF MY SYSTEMS.
THIS VIDEO CAN BE SEEN ON YOUTUBE.INSERT,ANGELPANTER9.
THEN GO DOWN THE LIST OF VIDEOS UNTIL YOU SEE A MAN IN A LIGHT BLUE SHIRT.THIS IS ME.PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO WERE YOU WILL SEE THE UNIVERSITY STUDY RESULT,AND MY APPEAL TO PRESIDENT OBAMA TO ALLOW ME TO OFFER MY INVENTIONS TO THE USA PEOPLE SO THAT AT LEAST YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO HELP IN THIS EMERGENCY CLEANUP OPERATION.
IF YOU VIEW THIS VIDEO AND FEEL IT IS A GOOD THING THEN PLEASE TELL AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
IF YOU FEEL IT IS A LOAD OF RUBBISH THEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW ON LLOYDFORTKNOX@AOL.COM
BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL
BILL LLOYD

Submit your idea to BP directly at these Web sites...

BP has established a Web page where people can send them suggestions about how to fix the oil spill. Go here:

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/546759/

Here is the link to their special site for offering alternative technology suggestions:

http://www.horizonedocs.com/artform.php

Send them your idea!

Anne Landman

I am a U.S. Marine, and I'm

I am a U.S. Marine, and I'm just blown away at how the government is handling this hole thing. I have not heard of but one attempt on how they are going to fix this, and its been alost 2 weeks, Since it has started there have been sighting of oil on the east coast in North Carolina, of oil bubbles. How B.P. is still even allowed to pump oil around the U.S. just shows you how the government is owned by the oil companies and its money.

Looks really apocalyptic ...

It is really terrible what's happening there, the biggest ecological disaster ever it seems ... They are not telling the truth yet and considering the fact that it is happening in the middle of the ocean, it's hard to get a sense of the true size of the spill. Thanks Google we have an idea of the surface of the spill, but what about its depth? I hear today that they were also incapable to properly manage the usage of neutralizing substances, and that their usage was delayed for days with catastrophic consequences. The region is going to be dead for years now, think not only on shrimps and tourism, but all local economy ... And the sea life? The birds? Who cares about them and their destroyed habitat?

What's even more sad...

What's even more sad is that no one is mentioning that this is an extinction level event...

BP and their BS but for a real plan to stop the oil and gas read

Independent views are needed but what then?

BP has sucked many in our Federal Government in as co-stewards in this mess. Now the smirks from many of the Jerks in BP have got folks in the USA fuming. And the trickle down effect has finally got those in DC wondering what could be next? Maybe the loss of their jobs??????

Look at this plan pass it around to those in Oil and Gas for real then get some buy in and make BP stop the oil and gas before it is too late.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

To all concerned about our future:
The following has been sent along to BP without a response. Yet today BP is stating they will try to do a similar thing but not in an oil field way of doing. That does not surprise me they have been doing things left handed and sideways since all this began.

I suggest for All that can --- pass this along to BP stressing on them to do the right thing this time ‘To stop the oil and gas from flowing into our Gulf of Mexico’.

What is at stake? Bret Hume FOX NEWS spin master said he could see No Oil. Got to watch the mainstream media propaganda spin masters they get their orders from the top of the heap.
View Bret Hume on FOX NEWS http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/849.html

Some might say Just take the scoundrels to court--- Which one and What day and When will they pay? If you think that way may you set back and think about who we are up against “The biggest buck folks in the human history, the Rockefellers and Rothschild’s” --- then think along those lines asking “Are we really sovereign people”?

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Reuters,

The operators of Reuters must pass this along to the Rothschild’s who own Reuters as soon as possible. The games that some are playing at BP will in the end cause a ruckus too hard to mend. I proposed this plan a week ago the oil and gas could have been stopped by now. Yet the mum boo jumbo way this crisis is being handled in the USA is a fault of guilt’s that will go back and keep going back until trials are held and many responsible for the lacks found in their actions will put them in jails.
Many have not a clue yet I do.

To whom it must concern at BP
By Dwight Baker
May 16, 2010
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

SUBJECT; Build install Overshot for riser

PURPOSE; Kill the well

Should I have enough facts about the conditions where you are working, consider this: get a design ‘You have all the dimensions’ then get an overshot made to fit the top flange looking up where the riser was affixed.

Get 5,000 feet of heavy weight 7” or better casing loaded on board for the overshot to be attached.

The casing string should be arranged as this:
1. On the bottom the overshot
2. Next up 3 or more high pressure check valves to resist the flow of gas and fluids up to the rig installing.
3. Next install 1 or more high-pressure pump out plugs to begin unloading the loss circulation material and heavy weight mud whatever that might be.
4. When installing the casing fill the casing as needed with loss circulation material and heavy weight mud as best designed.
5. Design a cut off charge to be used to separate the drill string from the riser with intent to have it fall away out of the overshot to be installed.

6. Use the roves to set the charge off at the best time after installation of overshot is underway. Should it not fall away as expected then a grapple can be used to pull out of the way.
7. After setting the overshot around the top flange the rubber goods installed will compress.
8. Install cementing plugs as needed and begin pumping as needed.
9. I believe the entire amounts of fluids and solids will go quickly into all exit points at this time.
10. The cement should be pumped down to the setting ring.
11. Should it not go down then close in ---- let set until cement has had time to dry.
12. After that time ----to release the rig a charge could be set at the depth where cement is in the setting casing --- the remainder can be pulled up and hopefully the nightmare will be ended.
GOOD LUCK

I have high hopes that the BOP SUB SEA WELL CONTROL SYSTEM IS STILL UP RIGHT.

Now, this is a good idea much better than the current plan that is NOT SANE or SOUND AT ALL ----NOW my thoughts and ideas are worthy of payment, please advise when we can come to terms. Dwight Baker PO BOX 7065 Eagle Pass Texas, 78852 tel 830-773-1077 Retired Oil and Gas Engineer with USA PATENTS high-pressure gates valves. Banking Universal Commercial Code number E67344656 My genetic roots go back to J.D. Rockefeller.

The Gulf Spill

Thank you for the valuable information. I asked a friend this question, to my satisfaction, I found the answer from you updated reports on the oil spill; how many ounces of water is in the gulf, how many cubic inches is in the gulf?

One thousand seven hundred twenty-eight cubic inches equal one cubic foot. One cubic foot equals sixty-two and one-half pound of water.

Are we safe?

Thank you